Improvement in eye-washes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANSOM O. FISHER, OF BELLEVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN EVE-WASHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,768, dated July 15, 1873; application filed October 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RANSOM G. FISHER, of Belleville, in the county of J efi'erson and State of New York, have invented a certain compound called Eye-Wash or Eye-Water, to be used for the purpose of curing weak, sore, and inflamed eyes, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of the invention of the said FISH- ER consists in mixing green tea, sugar of lead,

White vitriol, camphor-gum, and alcohol with rain or soft water. i

To prepare the eye-wash or eye-water for use, take one quart of soft cold water, and add to this one and one-half ounces of best green tea, and steep for thirty minutes, then pour off the liquid and let it settle, and when clear Witnesses A. HACKLEY, OLIVER B. BIErs. 

